Which is precisely why he hasn't disappeared. If you want to take down a man of the public, you gotta make the public hate him first. 30 rape counts later nobody will like him and then you can put a bullet in his stomach in a dark alley.

Where have I heard of this idea? Oh right, it's called a fucking laptop. When PC game developers stop removing single-computer multiplayer from their games, gaming laptops -which are usually great for working too- will be mobile gaming consoles. But oh noes, that would mean that more than one person can play with a single copy of their games! Stop those pirates!

Googling a problem ain't the answer. I'm sure I can find someone that for fifty bucks will be sitting in front of his/her computer waiting for me to email them that picture of the exam I took with my phone, solve the exam, take a picture of the solutions and sending them back to me.

Sure it's cumbersome, but it's a hell of a lot easier than actually learning physics. Besides, why bother with all that learning? All I want to be is a college professor! Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

Wait, what? So, let them glide through college and by that destroy the very little value a title has nowadays.

I mean seriously, why not just sell the titles and be done with it? If you're going to allow any type of cheating (which once allowed wouldn't be cheating) during college you just make it worthless to go there when it comes to paperwork. Sure, "you learn if you want", but then going to college would be worth nothing, so why even bother? Let's go back to learning trades directly to the village smith.

And you're thinking a calculator is the worst they can do. Well you're very shortsighted. The calculator is the least of your worries if you're the teacher. With today's technology you could have a fucking videocall with your cellphone where you can show someone else your exam and they can give you the answers, word by word. You can take a picture of the exam, send it thru email or MMS to a more knowledgeable friend who can then email you back the answers and you just copy them from your device.

It's not about babysitting but about making those titles mean something.

Give them freedom and they won't even learn the bare minimum.

Well, my guess is that the idea is in the lines of schools via videoconference. I don't know about other parts of the world, but here in Mexico there are a lot of schools in faraway small communities, well outside the bulk of civilization, that have no teachers, just tv screens. There is one teacher in a major city broadcasting his/her class so that these schools can learn. There's a whole system with details that are unknown to me, but the system is there.

So why use a doctor that's not physically there but on a videoconference? That's simple; if you need an emergency surgery and live in a remote island with only one doctor and a few nurses, this system might save your life.

Would you rather see everyone as a criminal and with that screw the innocent or see everyone as innocent and allow crime to fluorish?

Regardless of what people say, any politician openly stating that they prefer the second option will have his carreer ended by the public.

What I just don't understand is why, if crime rates have been going steadily down for some decades now, do they feel like they need to be more invasive and offensive in their fight against crime. Maybe it's all related to politics (and that "maybe" answers only to scientific precision, though I'm pretty sure that's the reason behind it all).

I wonder if forcing every single human being to read George Orwell's 1984 would prevent this sort of thing from happening.

Perhaps it's just that people don't realize what could go wrong with an Orwellian government in place. Perhaps they just don't see it, they don't think anything can go wrong if the government watches your every step.

Then again, perhaps people just don't care. As long as it's not them (and by "them" i mean the generations that currently live) who suffer it, they just don't give a damn.

I can tell from personal experience that many people don't care about stuff like that even if you tell them the consequences. Perhaps Big Brother is precisely what we, as a civilization, need in order to realize that it's a horrible thing to live like that. After all, experience is a good teacher.

Is it me or does that look exactly like newer videogames with heavy textures?

I had no idea what HDR was so when I started looking at the video I actually thought it was a videogame. Kindda reminds me of COD MW.

What do you mean it's 2001 all over again? I never stopped receiving those. Every once in a while I receive a mail "from a friend", from the friend's address or not, telling me stuff like "Hey, here are the pictures of that party!" or "Have you seen this? I can't believe there are pictures of it!". They all contain links to weird-looking pages which, of course, I never open.

Sometimes I even receive those mails with URLs that actually contain my email address, like www.thisisnovirus.com/picturesfromlastnight/superdarion.

From what I can tell, they usually come from my friend's MSN/hotmail's address books.

Amazing. Truly amazing. This will open a whole new area of social research; the behavior of zombies will finally be studied in detail and maybe, just maybe, hollywood will pick up the results and eventually come up with a zombie infestation that resembles reality.

Though I don't think a whole family of zombies grunting at a television show makes up for a good action flick.